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<\/p>\nRUSH: “Former Broward Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Scot Peterson faces 11 charges, including child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury, said Michael Satz, the state attorney for Broward County.” Here in Florida we call DA\u2019s “state attorneys,” and they are by county, like they are elsewhere. “The charges, which legal experts say could be difficult to prove, carry a maximum potential sentence of 96\u00bd years in prison.”<\/p>\n
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You remember this guy, right? The Marjory Stoneman Douglas school, which is the school that gave us the kid… What\u2019s his name? Harvard\u2019s accepted him. He\u2019s a big-time lib, led rallies. I can\u2019t remember. (interruption) Camera Hogg. David Camera Hogg. That\u2019s right. This is that school, and remember this guy and another sheriff\u2019s deputy, they had guns, and they didn\u2019t go in. And they said, “Well, our duty was to set up a perimeter.” So there were shots being fired inside, but they didn\u2019t go in, and now they\u2019re being charged with “child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury,” for making up the excuse about why they didn\u2019t go in.<\/p>\n
I was watching the CNN legal analyst discuss this today, and of course everybody at CNN hates guns. Everybody at CNN is pro-getting rid of the Second Amendment. There\u2019s not a single exception unless they go get a guest. But this wasn\u2019t a guest. This was their standby, bald-headed legal analyst guy, and he\u2019s trying to act outraged. (impression) “These guys, they had guns! They were outside, and they didn\u2019t go in. When you\u2019re outside a school and there are shots being fired inside, then you go in!<\/p>\n
“You\u2019ve got the gun. They didn\u2019t go in. They\u2019re…” All that\u2019s exactly right, but I couldn\u2019t believe I was hearing this on CNN. They should be supporting the sheriffs for not using their guns to stop this, because in the leftists\u2019 view, that only exacerbates the problems because it adds more guns to the scenario. So this guy Peterson, Scot Peterson, the sheriff\u2019s deputy, “who was on duty during the February 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, faced widespread condemnation for failing to confront the gunman.<\/p>\n
“According to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation, Mr. Peterson failed to investigate the source of gunshots, retreated while victims were being shot, and directed other law enforcement who arrived at the scene to remain 500 feet away from the building where the massacre was unfolding.” He said: Well, I had to set up a perimeter. “Mr. Peterson previously has said he didn\u2019t know gunshots were coming from inside the building and properly took position for what he thought were shots being fired outside.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the perjury charge.<\/p>\n
“A transcript of his radio communication that day showed he said ‘possible shots fired\u2019 and cited the building where the shooting occurred. An arrest warrant affidavit said Mr. Peterson had attended several active-shooter trainings, and Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office course material called for acting quickly to confront a shooter. ‘All the facts related to Mr. Peterson\u2019s failure to act during the … massacre clearly warranted both termination of employment and criminal charges,\u2019 Sheriff Tony said. ‘It\u2019s never too late for accountability and justice.'”<\/p>\n
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Daphne, Alabama, next. This is Micah. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Thanks, Rush. In your comment earlier regarding the Broward deputy and the Parkland shooting, you said you were surprised CNN was ripping this deputy. In my estimation, that falls in line with their view of guns and “proper authorities” who are allowed to have guns and the normal people who they don\u2019t want to have them. They\u2019re forced to wreck this guy publicly because he is someone they deem to be a proper authority. And when he fails to act, it wrecks that mantra of, “The proper authorities have guns and they\u2019ll come save you and they\u2019ll take care of all of us.” When this guy failed to act, it trashes that argument.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What argument is being trashed? How does this advance their anti-gun movement by trashing the sheriff for not going in and firing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because the left — group CNN with the left — prefers that normal citizens don\u2019t have guns.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Correct.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think if they had their way, they would strip everyone of the right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No question about that. No question about that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And to bolster that argument, they say, “Look, the police, the military, they have the guns; they\u2019ll protect you,” and in this case, here is a proper authority — a deputy sheriff — armed on the premises while a shooting is occurring, and he fails to act and people end up dead.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So then how does that advance the get-rid-of-everybody\u2019s-gun argument?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It doesn\u2019t. So they are forced to trash this guy because he failed to act. You had just made the comment that you were surprised by CNN doing that, and it just seems like they probably don\u2019t want to trash this guy, but they feel like they have to because it wrecks their argument.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The reason why it\u2019s surprise… ‘Cause I can think, if I\u2019m anti-gun, if I\u2019m anti-gun, and you\u2019ve got a law-enforcement officer and there\u2019s a shooting inside… We now know what happened, and if there\u2019s a sheriff\u2019s deputy outside that\u2019s armed that could have gone in there and tried to stop it and didn\u2019t, I can think of a much better argument to get rid of guns using this instance rather than trashing the sheriff\u2019s deputy for not doing anything. They don\u2019t want anybody using guns, and they ended up advocating this guy use the gun.<\/p>\n
They wanted him to use the gun. This lawyer on CNN was acting ticked off he didn\u2019t use the gun. The guy was making the case that the gun would have stopped the episode! When\u2019s the last time you heard the left agree to that premise? They would normally think the sheriff\u2019s deputy going in there with his gun would add another gun to the situation, “which cannot possibly be good,” in their life, in their worldview. The fact the guy didn\u2019t… I was just shocked because they don\u2019t want the usage of guns celebrated at all, even by law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Remember, they hate the cops! These are people that join up with Black Lives Matter who think the cops are murderers and so forth. So here\u2019s a guy that didn\u2019t do anything. He should be a hero to them, is the way I look at this. Instead, this lawyer started trashing him. You\u2019re right when you say that the left… If your point is that the left acknowledges law enforcement should have guns, and if the left acknowledges that their having guns and using them keep us safe, well, yeah. Then it would makes sense to trash the guy.<\/p>\n
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But that\u2019s not how they look at. They don\u2019t think guns make anybody safer. They want everybody in the world to have to get rid of guns. Look, even law enforcement on school grounds in many states, counties, are not allowed to be armed. In gun-free zones, even the law enforcement people are not allowed to have \u2019em. That\u2019s the left\u2019s preferred scenario: “Nobody but the government will have guns.” And this sheriff\u2019s deputy, if the left wants to be consistent, could have categorized him as a hero. “He knew that he would only be exacerbating the situation if he had gone in there!<\/p>\n
“Who knows how many innocents would have died with another gun introduced.” We\u2019re talking about the left here. They\u2019re not rational. I understand your point because you\u2019re looking at the left acknowledging that arming law enforcement is all we need. “We don\u2019t need citizens with guns because the cops have \u2019em.” That\u2019s fine. We\u2019ll acknowledge that. But they… Do you know that British cops are not armed? British cops have batons and billy clubs. They are not armed in many cases.<\/p>\n
Only a few, depending on the job. But the beat cop in the U.K….Well, now, if that\u2019s changed in the last five years, I\u2019m not aware of it. Anyway, good call. It\u2019s a good think piece on it. My surprise was looking at CNN and a guest angry a gun wasn\u2019t used. I\u2019m just not used to that. You don\u2019t see CNN advocating for gun usage, and you don\u2019t see support for punishing people for not pulling the trigger! (laughing) That\u2019s heroic! If you\u2019re a leftist, somebody having gun not pulling the trigger?<\/p>\n
Look at Obama\u2019s rules of engagement in the military! You can\u2019t fired on \u2019til you\u2019re fired on five times. You can\u2019t fire unless you can see who you\u2019re shooting at. You can\u2019t fire if there\u2019s any possibility that you\u2019re shooting at people in a school. Even in war, the left rewards people who get shot rather than fire their own gun in the military! So knowing all that, seeing some lawyer on CNN act mad that a gun wasn\u2019t used by law enforcement was just a shock to my system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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